Should a person aspiring to teach third graders be as academically gifted or driven as a person aspiring to design spacecraft for NASA? Of course not, and about the only thing the SAT attempts to predict is how well someone might do in his or her freshman year in college; beyond that it is useless, especially as an indicator of knowledge or academic ability. Some people don't find their academic groove until after their freshman year in college. I knew
plenty of people who scored a near-perfect 1600 (then) on their SATs, but couldn't make a rack properly or shine their shoes or march in step with the others on the grinder.
A dimwit is someone who continually makes the same dense mistake; a dimwit doesn't value knowledge to the extent he does not pursue it. That hardly describes a majority of public school teachers.
Should a person aspiring to teach third graders be as academically gifted or driven as a person aspiring to design spacecraft for NASA? You mean it's okay that they're dimwits?
about the only thing the SAT attempts to predict is how well someone might do in his or her freshman year in college
SAT scores are also a pretty good proxy for IQ. People on the left tail of the bell curve should not be teaching children.